An Introduction to Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Hussey, Maurice, A. C. Spearing, and James Winny.
An Introduction to Chaucer.
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.
- Physical Description
- vii, 192 pp.
- Series
- Selected Tales of Chaucer.
- Description
- Designed as a "not too bulky" introduction to Chaucer and his life for the Cambridge University Press series "Selected Tales of Chaucer," providing fundamental information about Chaucer's life, language, social contexts, and intellectual background, accompanied by a brief guide to "Some difficult words" and a bibliography and index. Includes six chapters: "Chaucer Himself" and "Chaucer's Science" by Winny, "Chaucer's England" and "The Church" by Hussey, and "Chaucer's Language" and "Chaucer the Writer" by Spearing.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Life
Language and Word Studies